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Ghanaian singer, Wendy Shay has expressed her opinions about the challenges faced by female performers in Ghana’s male-dominated music scene.
As published by Ghanaweb, Wendy Shay stated that the industry frequently rejects and ignores women, who typically have more needs than males, during an appearance on TV3’s New Day broadcast on March 8, 2024.
She claims that a lot of female musicians don’t have prospects or investors and that their male colleagues harass and discriminate against them.
“This is a male-dominated industry where women are mostly overlooked, and there is this stereotype that makes women feel rejected. And the funny thing is, it’s not even just we not having investors in the industry, we get rejected by our male counterparts,” she said.
Wendy Shay went on to say that certain male entertainers frequently ask female performers for sexual favors in exchange for working with them.
“Sometimes when we want to have a feature, you see them do it for normal male upcoming artistes. But let’s say an established female artistes would like to have a feature from another male artistes, they want to be sexual,” she said.
She stated that these are some of the hardships faced by women in the music business and expressed her desire for greater recognition and assistance for female performers.
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